Hollywood Bowl Vinyl Box’s Rare Live Tracks Range From a Young Sinatra to Death Cab for Cutie — and Dudamel, of Course
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticBoxed sets are typically compiled for the music fan that wants a lot of just one thing.
But the Hollywood Bowl’s tens of thousands of repeat customers every summer tend to be musical omnivores. Sometimes it’s about the top-billed artist, and sometimes it’s about sampling genres slightly outside of one’s wheelhouse because the Bordeaux you’ve been hoarding isn’t going to drink itself.A lavish new vinyl boxed set, “Hollywood Bowl: The First Hundred Years,” has been put together predicated on the belief that Bowl-goers will be into musical diversity when they’re encamped in the privacy of their own homes, too.
Its seven LPs include more than 50 tracks that span the years from 1928 to 2021 and are broken down into sections that encompass the realms of classical, pop-rock, jazz, film scores and the world of Broadway and the Great American Songbook.
The vast majority of tracks are previously unreleased and unavailable in any other format, giving turntable owners a chance to sample everything from Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Fred Astaire and Ella Fitzgerald to Donna Summer and James Brown; from the Doors and Dave Brubeck to Pentatonix, Pink Martini and Common.
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